The Subject Treated From A Bible Standpoint.Showing The Difference
BetweenMasonic Religion And Bible Salvation.

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.

As many volumes, both opposing, and favoring Free Masonry, have been
published and scattered broadcast throughout the land, yet we realize the great
need of a brief work being placed in the hands of every person belonging to a
secret order, or who may have any intention of joining such with the hope of
bettering their condition.

It is hoped that these few pages will have the desired effect, and be the
means of rescuing many precious souls from the snare that is laid to entrap them
and lead them on and on until redemption is beyond their reach.

It is our aim to sound the alarm, and give a note of warning in due time to
the great danger in pursuing the deceptive course marked out for them, leading
them on into mysterious and unknown paths, bringing peril and eternal
destruction to their souls. It is also intended to show the plane of Masonic
religion, and compare it with the teachings of the Holy Bible. Every professing
Christian should know these things, not only for their own benefit, but also for
the purpose of warning their children and others against impending danger.

Dear reader, if you are a member of a secret order, do not cast this book
aside until you have read and re-read its pages and pondered over the truths
contained therein. Your soul is in the balance, and much depends upon your
decision in the matter; a wrong step will prove fatal. And to those who have
escaped the snare, or have never been led into its clutches, we trust you will
extend a helping hand and aid in the rescue, sparing neither time nor means in
so doing, and should you consider this volume worthy the place for which it is
intended, see to it that each of your friends has a copy of the same. We send it
forth in the name of Jesus, asking his blessings upon it. Yours in Him,-The
Publishers at Gospel Trumpet Publishing Company.

CONTENTS.

Masonic Obligations.

The Masonic Trinity.

Masonry is a Religion.

Masonic Salvation.

Masonic Mysteries.

Hiram Abiff vs Osiris of Egypt.

Masonic Traditions.

CHAPTER 1:

MASONIC OBLIGATIONS.

AMONG the various institutions of to day there are very few, if any, that are
more binding in their obligations upon their members than is the Masonic order.
Masonry as an institution, as a craft, owes much of its great power today as
well as in times past, to the stringency of its obligations. The balance of its
power is based upon two claims, that of being very ancient, as well as a very
religious institution. Rob Masonry of its obligations or oaths and it would
fall, so take away its boast of age or semblance of religion and the same result
would follow.

Mystery in itself is powerful. So Masons have shrouded their craft in
mystery. There is nothing mysterious about Masonry when its cloak is taken away.
There is no light in the boasted knowledge of the craft. Earthly, sensual and
devilish in the extreme do we find every point of its workings when analyzed by
the Spirit and the Word of God.

To untie a mystery we must first look to the bands that enclose it. The
Masonic obligation, it is claimed among Masons, cannot be broken. To obtain a
clear idea of Masonry we must first inform ourselves as to what Masons are
expected to live up to, what they are expected to do, and as the obligation must
certainly cover a man's duty as a Mason, we give those duties as set forth in
the obligation, that is, those that can be spoken to all ears, as there is at
least one section that for reasons well known is strictly for men only. Many
wonder why men consider Masonic obligations so binding especially so when their
awful nature is revealed. Ministers (shall we say of the gospel?) no doubt also
consider them binding, at least they attend their lodges and partake of all the
nature and benefits of the craft. We now consider the nature of the obligation.

The first or E. A. degree obligation contains only the duty of secrecy as
respects the workings of the lodge. This duty is bound by the following penalty
which is spoken by the "worshipful master" and repeated by the candidate:

"To all of which I most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear
with a firm and steadfast resolution to keep and perform the same without the
least equivocation, mental reservation of self evasion whatsoever: binding
myself under a no less penalty than that of having my throat cut from ear to
ear, my tongue torn out by the roots and buried in the rough sands of the sea
at low water mark where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours,
should I in the least knowingly or willfully violate or transgress this my
entered apprentice obligation. So help me God and keep me steadfast." (Some
lodges add, "in a due performance of the same.")

There is enough of
a threat conveyed in the above obligation or penalty to keep the younger
initiate in subjection and wonder until he is brought a second time in reach of
Masonic light where he is again sworn to keep the secrets of the F. C. degree in
like manner. Four ties are now added covering duties to Brother Fellow crafts
and the lodge as to the answering of summons, assistance of Brethren, etc. The
candidate here promises not to cheat, wrong or defraud a lodge of F. C's or a
brother of that degree knowingly or willfully, (nothing is said of other
parties) and the penalty as here given binds the same.

"To all of which I most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear
with a steadfast resolution to keep and perform the same without the least
equivocation, mental reservation, or self evasion whatsoever, binding myself
under a no less penalty than that of having my left breast torn open, my heart
plucked from thence and given to the wild beasts of the field and the fowls of
the air as a prey, should I in the least knowingly or willfully violate this,
my fellow craft obligation. So help me God and keep me steadfast."

This form is the one followed in Kansas and recommended by their
grand lodge. Colorado however adds somewhat to it, but in no material way
changing the sense.

This carries the candidate somewhat deeper into the mysteries, and when he is
carefully lectured and a sufficient length of time has transpired he is given
the Master Mason's degree which increases his Masonic "light" darkness and he
finds himself bound tighter in the ungodly yoke.

The M. M. obligation contains ten "ties" or sections besides the one of
secrecy. These ten cover the ground of Masonic duty and constitute the Masonic
code of duties. They include the duties of answering and obeying all summons
under certain restrictions, obedience to all Masonic authority, with duties to
each other and their relatives and families. The most notable are the following:

"I furthermore promise and swear that I will keep the secrets of a
Master Mason when communicated to me as such, 'murder and treason' excepted,
and they left to my own election."

Note, those not excepted would
probably count among their number, burglary, arson, robbery, rape, piracy,
theft, forgery, and many other things too numerous to mention, excepting of
course murder and treason. And yet Masons tell us, and I for one was informed
that there was nothing in the obligation that would interfere with my duty to my
God, my country, my neighbor, my family, or myself; and I took the above
obligation understanding it so, and with the assurance of "worshipful master" in
an official capacity that such was the case. Would that section interfere with
my duties to my neighbor if I protected a Mason who had stolen his horse and
sent him on his way rejoicing? Any candid Mason can see at once that his M. M.
obligation commands him to keep crime a secret, except murder and treason which
of course his obligation tells him he can conceal or not as he likes, which of
course is not violating his obligation if he also keeps. What do you think of
that, you professing Christian, preacher or layman who are under the same cursed
yoke? "Be not partakers of their evil deeds." How are you going to do that and
keep that section? Every Mason when he comes to the bar of God will be asked
something about the way he has kept his obligation. If he has kept it to the
letter, that clause will send him to destruction. If he has not kept it he has
violated his Masonic obligation and is in the sight of all Masonic eyes a
perjured man, and had just as well violate them all. A ten-year-old boy can see
that, and also see what to do when it comes to obeying God or man.

I have never yet asked God to pardon me for breaking that or any other
Masonic obligation, nor do I ever intend to do so. Another obligation or section
binds a man to respect the chastity of a Master Mason's wife, mother, sister or
daughter, but says nothing about wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of other
men, not Masons. Thus licensed they will keep their secrets should they do so
and again come under condemnation of God and man. There are other "ties," but
lack of space prevents their setting forth.

PENALTY, M. M. DEGREE.

"To all of which I most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear with a
firm and steadfast resolution to keep and perform the same without the least
equivocation, mental reservation or self evasion whatsoever, binding myself
under no less a penalty, than that of having my body severed in twain, my
bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes and they scattered to the four
winds of heaven that there might remain no remembrance among men or Masons, of
so vile a wretch as I would be, should I in the least knowingly or willfully
violate or transgress this my M. M. obligation. So help me God and keep me
steadfast ."

I have repeated these from memory and to the best
of my recollection, what I have given is verbatim. Is it necessary to call
attention to the grossness and vileness of an institution, bound by such
monstrous obligations-obligations that would shock a band of thieves, if they
were compelled to take them, to say nothing of professed ministers of the
gospel? Praising God for free salvation and complete deliverance from the power
of Satan, I feel it my duty to enlighten my ex-brother Masons, as well as any
others that may contemplate joining the order.

CHAPTER 2:

THE MASONIC TRINITY.

....

Masonry, a false religion, also has a trinity. Ancient idolatry had its
trinities, and modern idolatry has its trinities. Satan, the arch-counterfeiter,
is the father of all lies as well as false systems of worship. Now in order to
deceive people, and especially an intelligent people, his device, or plan, or
counterfeit must be built likewise, so as to appear genuine. A counterfeit
dollar is the more dangerous the more nearly it resembles the real, because it
is the more likely to deceive....

Masonry in a way acknowledges what it calls the Grand Architect of the
Universe; but prefers to symbolize him by three persons, whom we now proceed to
investigate.

First, the symbolic structure of Masonry is supported by three symbolic
pillars; namely, wisdom, strength, and beauty. These three pillars are in
Masonic terms, Solomon, representing in the Masonic trinity the pillar of
wisdom. Hiram, king of Tyre, representing the pillar of strength, and Hiram
Abiff, the widow's son, representing the pillar of beauty. Here we have the
Masonic foundation. Their trinity upon which Satan builds one of his most
cunning, if not his most cunning and elaborate counterfeit of God's
divinity, and God's plan of salvation.

The offices of Solomon as wisdom, and Hiram as strength, i. e., counterfeits
of the Holy Ghost, and of the Father, can be readily seen from the above. The
Masonic lectures clear up that matter wonderfully. The question here arises: Who
was Hiram Abiff? If he is a symbol of the Son, how does it appear that he is
known as the pillar of beauty, or one of the trinity. Christ in the trinity is
our example. I Jno. 1:26. Hiram Abiff is the standard of true Masonry, and all
Masons are instructed to pattern after him. (See Masonic Lectures.) Being
assured that if they do so they will gain an entrance into "The Grand lodge"
that Masons tell us is above, where the lecture tells us the Grand Architect
presides, etc., etc. Hiram Abiff then is the Masonic mediator, even as Christ is
the Christian mediator. Christ suffered for the sins of the world in order to
complete the Father's plan. Hiram Abiff, (see Legend of the Temple Builders) was
put to death by fellow crafts because he would not comply with their demands,
and break his word, and so violate his compact with Solomon and Hiram of Tyre in
reference to the Master's Word," which was the most important secret or tie of
Masonry, and held by those three alone at that time. This word, had it been
revealed, would have destroyed the foundation of Masonry and the plan of its
"alleged" founders. Hence Masonry according to their Masonic fable was preserved
by the faithfulness of Hiram Abiff, who preferred death to the giving up to the
temptation to purchase life by the violation of his oath. This is simply a
condensed account of Hiram Abiff to show his part or place in the Masonic
trinity.

Turn now to the scripture and we find that when man sinned ...[God] had a
plan for man's salvation. The Son was ordained as the sacrifice, who should put
on the body of flesh, and come among men and suffer death as a man, in order
that the plan of salvation might be carried out. He was tempted in all points as
we are... [yet without sin] and at the cost of his life carried out the work God assigned him, so that salvation was realized.

In the Masonic plan we find two wonderful men, kings Solomon and Hiram; one
strong and one wise. Solomon, to whom David gave the plan of the temple, being
the author, gave the designing into the hands of Hiram Abiff, who drew the
designs for the work on his trestle board for the workmen to copy after and work
by.

So Christ was among men, and by his life and work among men, gave them a
design, or pattern by which to build a spiritual house.

We recognize readily by the Bible that the building of the temple was a type
of the spiritual house, or temple of God, "which temple ye are." And as there
was no sound of hammer or tool of iron when it went up, so should the temple of
God be built to day. The word and Spirit reveal that fact clearly. Solomon in
building the temple represented wisdom, or the Holy Ghost himself acting as a
type of the Holy Ghost workman in the building to be built in the heavens. Hiram
as furnishing workmen, timber, etc., and fetching them from different points
represents the strength of the Father considered separate from the others for
the sake of illustration.

Hiram, the workman and designer drew patterns as God showed him, and while
there with them directed the work until his "alleged" death, which of course
Masons have no Bible foundation for. The only places where Hiram, or Huram the
Architect is mentioned being in 2 Chron., 4th chapter, and I Kings 7th chapter,
and those have reference only to his nativity, his world and its quality. So as
nothing more was said of him, Satan filled the hearts of Masonic founders to
take this man and make a savior out of him.

The Masonic story of Hiram Abiff then is a fable, continued by Satan to mock
the word of God. "The Legend of the Temple Builders" is acted out in full while
conferring the latter part of the third, or Master Mason's degree. The candidate
is assaulted and the "word" is demanded of him (which as yet he has not
received); he is then at the third assault struck on the head by a stuffed club
called a setting maul, and symbolically killed. Then after a number of maneuvers
he is buried on Mt. Moriah. He is missed, and after a long search his grave is
found. Then comes the most damnable piece of mockery that Satan and the councils
of hell could invent. A mock resurrection follows, and by the aid of Solomon and
Hiram of Tyre he is raised from the dead by a grip known as the "Strong grip of
the Lion of the tribe of Judah." Satan's counterfeit is complete, and the fiends
of hell rejoice every time they see a poor blind candidate put through the
mockery of coming from darkness to "Masonic" light. And yet men who profess to
not only follow Christ, but preach his gospel also, support, countenance,
attend, and recommend the institution to their sons and their friends.

The "Legend of Hiram Abiff the Temple Builder" is copied from the legend of
Osiris the Egyptian deity, and so closely resembles it as to prove the one to be
copied from the other. Mackey says a great deal about "ancient mysteries,"
Egyptian rites, and also speaks of Osiris and others; and by following up his
works, notes etc., "Pierson's Traditions," and "Morris' Dictionary" we are able
to trace Masonry to right where it originated, i. e., in ancient Baal or sun
worship. See Ezek. 8th chapter and especially 16th verse. Ezekiel clearly saw
ancient Masonry in that vision. Tammuz, spoken of in verse 14, has reference to
Adonis, another person, whose, history corresponds to that of Hiram and Osiris.
Sun worship it clearly is, worked over to make what Dr. Oliver proudly calls "A
universal religion." Dr. Oliver is a noted English Masonic writer and historian.
He says, "To Christianize Masonry by praying to or through Christ would sink it
from its sublime position as a universal religion to the level of a sect." There
is a "learned Masonic" opinion of Christ. What do you think of it? No Christ
there, is there? One Mason of my acquaintance, who at the time of which I speak
had been a member of this order only a few months, said to me, "There is a god
in Masonry, but no Christ." He had learned that in a few months, and yet said
that he was a follower of Christ.

Beloved, how can these things be? All Masons know the truth of this matter.
Can God look in mercy upon a man who professes his name, and yet touches these
unclean, unholy, idolatrous worlds, or partakes with them?

Again before all of God's people I praise him for delivering me from such
works. "Whom Christ makes free is free indeed." Such works as "Mackey's
Lexicon," also his "Ritual," "Pierson's Traditions," "Morris' Dictionary," and
other works Show what those great Masons who are acknowledged authority, say of
Masonry as a religion, as well as of other points.

Those men have by their works enabled me to see more of Masonry than the
average Mason sees in a life time. The books referred to, as well as their
authors, are all standard, and are not "exposes" in any sense of the word, yet
they are keys by which he who has been in the secret chambers of the lodge can
unlock the secrets of Masonry to the world, and prove every step he takes.
Truly, truly, did Christ say "Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou
wicked servant."—Luke 19:22. "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by
thy words thou shalt be condemned.—Matt. 12:37.

O foolish Masons, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among
you! So Satan has overstepped himself, and while he thinks himself safely
entrenched, God has found him out, and will pull him and his worlds down, even
though they have climbed up another way.

If you have heard of the Illuminati Order and you thought it was some kind of mythological conspiracy theory, here are the archives from George Washington himself, which prove not only their existence, but that they were intensively active in the United States of America. George Washington was also certain that some of the illuminati had infiltrated some of the American Lodges of Freemasonry.

TO G. W. SNYDER.Mount Vernon, 24 October, 1798.
REVEREND SIR, I have your favor of the 17th instant before me, and my only motive for troubling you with the receipt of this letter is, to explain and correct a mistake, which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged often to write letters has led you into.
It was not my intention to doubt, that the doctrines of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States, On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than I am.
The idea that I meant to convey was, that I did not believe that the lodges of freemasons in this country had, as societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the former, or pernicious principles of the latter, if they are susceptible of separation. That individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to found the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects, and actually had a separation of the people from their government in view, is too evident to be questioned. (The Writings Of George Washington, Vol. XI., 1855, p. 337)

It is an undeniable fact that conspiracies exist. It is also an under appreciated fact that most people have been conditioned to pay little or no attention to conspiracies. Misinformation is often circulated in the media and elsewhere for the purpose of leading people away from the truth. This was in the past and still is today one of the main functions of the Catholic Jesuit organization. It is no coincident that high level Jesuits are also high ranking Freemasons. The following information reveals some of the methods employed to deceive. Morals and Dogma is an official Masonic book written by occultist Albert Pike. Pages 104 and 105 of this Satanic occult book states:

Masonry, like all the religions, all Mysteries, Hermetiscism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve to be mislead;
So Masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray. (Morals and Dogma, pp. 104, 105)

A.They all teach that you cannot trust nor believe the Holy Bible; and that you must put your faith in their theologies, traditions, customs and rituals in order to please God and have everlasting life.

In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. (Matt. 18:16; II Cor. 13:1)

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